Video footage shows the veteran comedian being quizzed by a journalist about the mounting death toll in Gaza, and she was typically candid with her response.

Joan replies: “The dead? You deserve to be dead. You started it. Don’t you dare make me feel sad about that.”

She’s then reminded that 2000 civilians had been killed, but the ‘Fashion Police’ host does not back down, adding: “Tell that to the people in Hiroshima. When you declare war, you declare war. They started it.”